Suburban Outlaw: I love a parade

6:44 PM,
Nov. 16, 2012

Written by

Pam Sherman

Every family has its own Thanksgiving traditions. There are food traditions - mashed potatoes, and green beans with mushroom soup and French fried onions. In our family it was creamed onions. My mother made a huge vat of them and only two people actually ate them. And even though every year she'd make a gourmet cranberry sauce, there had to be store-bought cranberry sauce on the table, still shaped like the can, for my brother. Some families have non-food Thanksgiving traditions like running 10-Ks, going to church, or playing flag football. And of course, there are those whose family ...